Adaptation is a mechanism by which the visual system optimizes visual processing and attains perceptual stability in a continuously changing visual world (Clifford et al.,
2007; Smithson & Zaidi,
2004; Webster,
2011; Welch,
1978). Adaptation has been shown in a diversity of attributes, such as adaptation to color (Belmore & Shevell,
2008,
2011; Delahunt, Webster, Ma, & Werner,
2004; Eisner & Enoch,
1982; Neitz, Carroll, Yamauchi, Neitz, & Williams,
2002), contrast (Bao & Engel,
2012; Bao, Fast, Mesik, & Engel,
2013; Kwon, Legge, Fang, Cheong, & He,
2009), distortions and blur (Adams, Banks, & van Ee,
2001; Habtegiorgis, Rifai, Lappe, & Wahl,
2017; Yehezkel, Sagi, Sterkin, Belkin, & Polat,
2010). Adaptation effects are commonly shown as aftereffects that last on a seconds time scale after the adapting features are removed. However, exposure to some changes in the environment does not only induce momentary visual adjustments but also contributes to future visual experience. Experience-dependent long-term facilitation of adaptation can be studied by testing the ability to adapt fast to features that have been adapted in previous sessions. This has been done by a few studies that showed faster re-adaptation to blur after four hours of adaptation on the previous day (Yehezkel et al.,
2010) and faster re-adaptation to color after habitual wearing of colored glasses for 14 months (Engel, Wilkins, Mand, Helwig, & Allen,
2016). For such rapid re-adaptations, the visual system might need previous information about the alterations that increase its expectations or minimize its insecurities for the risk of error driven fast adjustments (Todorovic, van Ede, Maris, & de Lange,
2011; Wark, Fairhall, & Rieke,
2009).